Good Health in Our Community

Unit of 3 Lessons
Grade Levels: 
3
4
5
Subjects: 
Health and PE
Social-Emotional Learning
Issue Area: 
Hunger (poverty)
Focus Question 

Why is it important to practice healthy living habits and advocate for healthy living practices in a community?

 

Photo Credit:  Hungry Kids, Peru by Krystelle Denis is licensed under CC by 2.0

Unit Overview 

Students explore the meaning of community and describe traits of a healthy classroom community. They survey other students and together they promote healthy habits in the school community.

Service Experience 
Students create and implement a needs assessment survey. After collecting data, they may design a service project appropriate for their community to promote healthy habits in themselves and others.
Lessons in This Unit 
Unit: 
Good Health in Our Community
Lesson 2 of 3
Grades: 
3
4
5

Students learn about nutrition for healthy bodies and encourage others to make healthy choices. Students learn about healthy choices by playing a group game. In the end they learn that when everyone is healthy, we are all able to do our best.

Unit: 
Good Health in Our Community
Lesson 3 of 3
Grades: 
3
4
5

Students design a plan to make themselves and their school community healthier. They brainstorm what it means to get moving and exercise, and they see that increasing physical fitness activity is good for everyone and brings a community together. Students will choose or design a service project to encourage schoolmates and the community to increase their daily fitness activity.